... . "He never give up. He was the one told me not to. He said let's not have a funeral till we get somethin to bury, if it ain't nothin but his dogtags." John Grady Cole, the last in a long line of west Texas ranchers, was poised on the sorrowful, painful edge of manhood. When he realized the only life he had ever ... ...

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